Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Headed for home — at least Sarah Street. Slow but sure, C. Valley pavers — the ones who made quick work of James Street paving one night last year — made the turn at Bay and Greavette Street at noon today as they head up hill toward the midway […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — If there was a fly on the wall at yesterday’s celebration of life for Marion and Cyril it would have had giant ears. The kind that became synonymous in the 1970s when Cyril clowned in Gravenhurst parades — and at other times when he peddled down Muskoka Road towering […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Matt Hammersley got more than a heaping plate of great red spaghetti last night at a dinner at St. Paul’s Catholic Church. The 7-year-old Bradford boy got a big hug from his grandmother, Sonja, when he pulled her ticket on a winning door prize at the church fundraiser. She […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — They were crying in their beer here last Sunday when the last call finally came. After 75 years of it serving “the coldest beer in Bala,” it was cry-fives at the Beer Store for a “couple hundred people — at least,” who rallied around the historic west Muskoka log […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Fear not coffee lovers — another fast food restaurant is destined for Muskoka and James. When Oliver’s Coffee closes here at the end of the month — scary thought — property owner Bill Kalogripsas plans to return it to its 50-year-old Burg and Blizzard roots. But it won’t be […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — OK! Blue Jays, let’s play some big time fall ball. Will Vladimir Guerrero Jr. or Aaron Judge be Mr. October starting at 4:08 p.m today in Game 1 of the five-game American League Division Series (ALDS) Championship at the Rogers Centre? Vladdy has 23 HRs and the Yankees’ Judge […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.comBRACEBRIDGE — Yesterday’s meet and greet was as much for the Maples Leafs as their fans. “Auston Matthews … meet Nicolas Roy. “Matias Maccelli … this is John Tavares. “Michael Pezza … meet Max Domi.” And so it went during their now annual two-day Muskoka bonding experience. And club tournament at the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Leafs fans here today got a sneak peak at this year’s bigger line-up. Coach Craig Berube said the team Toronto ices next Wednesday in the season home opener against Montreal will likely be the one facing Detroit tomorrow night at the Scotiabank Arena in its second last pre-season game. […]